Barbara Bush Quotes
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?
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Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
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Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.
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I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.
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My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
